Here is a quote from President Reagan on the importance of age. He was running for president. His opponent was trying to make Reagan’s age a key issue. Reagan replied, “I shall not let age be an issue in this campaign. So I will not comment on my opponents youth and inexperience.”

---The older we get, the more excuses we make for not chasing after our dreams. But truth is, goals are attainable at any age.

When you read a biography of someone you admire, it’s rarely the things that made them happy that compel your admiration. It’s the things they did to court unhappiness — the things they did that were arduous and miserable, which sometimes cost them friends and aroused hatred. It’s excellence, not happiness, that we admire most.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win…